15 thoughts on “FFXIV Paladin (PLD) Cross Class skills guide”

You go into your actions and traits panel and pick from where it says “additional”, you just click whichever class icons are lit up and then pick the skills within that you want to use from there. The ones you choose will go into a line of boxes/slots on the bottom of the panel, and yhen you can drag them to your action bars.

You get more boxes/slots as you level, and It’s important to remember that because -for instance- say your synced down to a level 16 dungeon for whatever reason and your usually a much higher level, you’ll only have access to the extra skills from slots unlocked in that level range you’ve been synced to, but not higher. So say your 50 and you put fracture in your last cross slot, you wont be able to use fracture in the level 16 dungeon, it will be faded out on your action bars until your finished and back to your proper level. So be sure to pick your most important extra skills for your earliest slots so you won’t be without them.

I quite like cure with . I only really cast it when i no longer have hate so defence down is not an issue. Nice for duo’s. Small dungeons or when there are 2 tanks and I can gain some free emnity whilst helping out the healer even if its only a small amount.

I quite like having cure set as a option. I use it when i have lost hate to get it back rather than using it whilst I am tanking. Helps stop the mage from cure bombing the DD and then pulling hate also. (That said, im only low level at the moment).

I’d also be interested on opinions of bloodbath. I used it pre 40 and found it to be so lackluster that I dropped it for cure, which at least gives a noticeable, if not still somewhat trivial heal and which works better with convalescence. With shield oath and reduced damage output at 40, bloodbath seems even less useful. I might work it back in when I have 5 cross class skills since it’s sadly better than a lot of the other options (for grouping purposes).

I’ve been lazy since my pali is only 42 so far and hadn’t explored all the cross class options for pali so thanks for this list (and I love this site and refer it to friends for info period, thanks for the dungeon guides – I always read em before I tank em). Good to know stone skin is an option even if it’ll be a grind to get to it.

I believe or have been told, that when using cure you put down all of your defenses, meaning no blocks/parry ( same applies for stoneskin). Also there is the 10%enmity boost from bloodbath, which won’t lower your defenses. As a tanker it seems best to avoid all conj skills in dungeons, leave the healing to the healer.